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If it helps you feel better, I voted for free speech and feel that the administration did not hold up their end of the deal. The FTC’s recent “debanking” letter to the payment processors is just theater until something changes. I’ll leave it at that.

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Ok but why? They did not campaign on freedom of speech or expression, they actively campaigned against both...

IMO there are no surprises from this admin, they are doing what they promised.

Who is “they”? I voted on party lines, state, federal, and local. The way that people on the left shut down discussions more readily is what contributed to it, using tactics such as bringing particular candidates into the discussion despite me never volunteering that I was pro-Trump per se in this thread.

It’s probably going to be awhile before I’m sympathetic to the “other” side though (it’s still two sides of the same turd after all), seems some things haven’t changed yet.

You found that after the first administration, in the end, he had earned your vote for Free Speech?

Some people weren't paying much attention to "politics" until Dumpty started going full crazy. Still unclear exactly when that started.

I don't really think he's even gotten that much crazier than his admittedly high 2016 baseline. He has gotten a lot better at execution of said craziness, especially after realizing consequences would be slow and few.

> the administration did not hold up their end of the deal

Trump? Not holding up his end of the deal? Who could have seen that coming!

The Art of the Deal!

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m unironically looking forward to the other shoe dropping next term, so that we can finally get a generation of politicians that can bring on the great reset. Too much legacy software running on the kernel and it can no longer be maintained.

You voted against free speech. The sooner you can admit to that the better.

Trump has been very clearly against free speech well before 2015. He's been anti-American and anti-constituion well before he came down that escalator.

It doesn't make me feel better that you're still pretending otherwise.

Please give examples to your accusations if you want to be taken seriously.

If only there were signs.

Twitter files

You want to elaborate?

Do you?

Sure. He ran on being an anti-immigrant authoritarian in his FIRST campaign. Those were the signs. Now, tell me what you meant by "Twitter Files".

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